Coalition for Sustainable Rail to Convert World’s First Modern Steam Engine Powered with Biocoal

It will be great when railroad engines run cleaner than they do now with diesel fuel. Take a look at this project on Clean Technica where biocoal will be used for power. Coalition for Sustainable Rail to Convert World’s First Modern Steam Engine Powered with Biocoal (via Clean Technica) This is not just a trip [...]

It will be great when railroad engines run cleaner than they do now with diesel fuel. Take a look at this project on Clean Technica where biocoal will be used for power.

This is not just a trip down memory lane to visit an old smoky railroad locomotive. At the University of Minnesota, the Coalition for Sustainable Rail (CSR) is actively converting a 1937 locomotive – # 3463 – into what will be the world’s first carbon-neutral high-speed locomotive. It will not…